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The V1 Saliency Hypothesis, or V1SH (pronounced ‘vish’) is a theory^[1]^[2] about V1, the primary visual cortex (V1). It proposes that the V1 in primates creates a saliency map of the visual field to guide visual attention or gaze shifts exogenously.

^ Li, Zhaoping (2002-01-01). "A saliency map in primary visual cortex". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 6 (1): 9–16. doi:10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01817-9. ISSN 1364-6613. PMID 11849610. S2CID 13411369.
^ Zhaoping, Li (2014). The V1 hypothesis—creating a bottom-up saliency map for preattentive selection and segmentation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-177250-4.